Example sentences of "about [pron] children 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that emphasis , Labour could hope to appeal strongly to a wide spectrum of the middle classes , from parents who are desperately worried about their children 's schooling to commuters fed up with the run-down public transport services and clogged roads . |
| 2 | Parents will be more interested in the school and may ask awkward questions about their children 's learning , particularly when new approaches to teaching and learning are introduced . |
| 3 | At the more routine end of the scale , studies of the relationship between mothers and daughters , from Young and Willmott onwards , document how daughters turn to their mothers when they are anxious about their children 's health , or unsure about some aspect of child rearing ( Young and Willmott , 1957 ) , despite the tendency of professional advisers to devalue ‘ old wives ’ tales ' . |
| 4 | As a result , they have become more concerned not only about their children 's educational well-being , but about their own cultural bearings as well . |
| 5 | suggest the kinds of questions they should be asking about their children 's education ; |
| 6 | urge them to seek regular discussions about their children 's progress ; |
| 7 | I spent the day with Faith Reed and her family — husband Chris and children Lydia , aged 3½ , Sophie , aged two , and Jake , aged nine months — and answered some of the questions today 's parents are asking about their children 's food . |
| 8 | Thus Anderson may have been more prophetic than was realized at the time ( Earley 1988:61 ) : Parents are basically looking for reassurance about their children 's schools and teachers . |
| 9 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 10 | What do you envy about your children 's lifestyle ? |